Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philadelphia bustled and tumbled with the 39th convention of the Loyal Order of Moose?membership, 650,000; slogan, "Pap." Some 50,000 delegates attended, together with 1,200 women auxiliaries who were last week admitted to a men's session for the first time...
Unity. A comprehensive topic of the whole conference was discussed in plenary session "The Unity of Christendom." The Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, himself the organizer of a Universal Conference on Life & Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925, et seq.) paralleling Bishop Brent's assembly on Faith & Order, reiterated the idea that all sects should be able to regard themselves and each other as chapters of a single Church...
Amid extreme suspense the Central Executive Committee handed down a joint 5,000-word decision which was puzzling. For whom was it a victory? On one hand it declared: "The joint plenary session has accepted in foundation a resolution for the expulsion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee." But the resolution went on to say: "The Opposition have found it necessary to give way and to renounce a number of their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session...
...through the maze of the literary market, with all financial short cuts plainly marked, will be drawn for 50 students at the Bread Loaf Conference, branch of Middlebury College (Vt.) summer session, which opened this week. "The interests of creative writing" are chiefly nurtured, say the bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil...
...were fellow Virginians and assembled dele gates to the newly established Institute of Public Affairs. Governor Byrd, following the purpose of the Institute to discuss U. S. political problems, spoke of re-organization of state and county governments, stressed the necessity for removal of legal deadwood. He suggested one session of every legislature in the country devoted solely to re pealing worn-out laws...